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...terms might not be more helpful in assisting us to understand our “global society,” as the Task Force is fond of calling it, than the particularly Western notion of faith’s interaction with reason. Yesterday, Congressional Quarterly’s Jeff Stein published an excellent piece in The New York Times relating his troubling experience asking every government employee he could—FBI agents, congressmen, and State Department employees alike—if they understood the difference between a Sunni and a Shiite. The results are dismaying, if predictable?...

Author: By Pierpaolo Barbieri, Travis R. Kavulla, and Christopher B. Lacaria, S | Title: Faith and Only Faith | 10/18/2006 | See Source »

...organized the first pep rally in recent years. The success of the event, which drew about 2,500 students, was indicative of the College’s willingness—and student receptiveness—to increase social planning for Harvard-Yale weekend. HoCos were given funding to hold stein clubs to encourage students to attend the pep rally, according to Greenfield...

Author: By Liz C. Goodwin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: College To Sponsor Pre-Game | 10/16/2006 | See Source »

...consider where to put the rest—which amounts to about $50,000, or a little over 10 percent of the Council’s total budget. (Last year, $30,000 was lost with Wyclef, and the rest was divided between First Year Social Committee grants, a few stein clubs, subsidized shuttle busses, and a few other projects.) What the UC should not do is simply pour the balance into its general grants fund for student groups. While student groups, as a whole, add to the campus-wide community, most of their individual projects do not rise...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Money to Burn | 10/12/2006 | See Source »

...story that begins with the painter Max Weber, a Russian Jewish migr to New York City. It was Weber who brought the first Picasso canvas to the U.S., in 1909, on his return from a four-year stay in Paris, where he had befriended the indispensable Gertrude Stein and her brother Leo, cocksure tastemakers and champions of Picasso. By that year Picasso and Braque were already off and running through the first stages of Cubism. Meanwhile, advanced American painting, such as it was, meant the Ashcan School realism of Robert Henri and John Sloan or the agreeable borrowings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Picasso's Progeny | 10/9/2006 | See Source »

...favorite for this year is former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari,? said Stein Toennesson, director of the Peace Research Institute-Oslo, who gave the statesman a 50% chance of taking the prize for his role brokering a peace between the the Free Aceh Movement and the Indonesian government. ?He has been involved in several peace processes in his life, in Libya, the Balkan; he has a special role in Kosovo; but the main reason is the role he played in Indonesia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nobel Winner Is Never A Solid Bet | 10/6/2006 | See Source »

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